Tim Urban, Wait But Why

“Experts believe we'll reach artificial intelligence between 2040 and 2060. Will this be fun or upsetting?”

Presentation title:

Why AI Will Become Bigger than the Internet

About the video:

Tim Urban, Creator of 'Wait But Why', believes Artificial Intelligence will become bigger than the internet itself. Hear him discuss what to do with AI, whether we can program AI to do good, and that even means.

About the speaker:

Since he started writing the blog Wait But Why in 2013, Tim Urban has become one of the internet’s most popular writers. Urban, according to Fast Company, has “captured a level of reader engagement that even the new-media giants would be envious of.” Vox describes Urban’s articles as “…a feast. At the end, you feel sated, like you just learned the shit out of something, like you get something in a way you didn’t before … you will understand the world better for reading them.” Today, Wait But Why receives over 1.5 million unique visitors per month on average, with some month’s visitors topping 10 million, and the blog has over 380,000 email subscribers.